Feeling a little like Santa

So I’ve been home for a solid week and a half  now and boy can my body tell! At school it’s easy for me to stick to my Paleo diet (not that it’s usually ever hard) and just eat plain healthy because my roommates and I all eat the same and all eat really healthy.  At home… not so much.  Don’t get me wrong my family eats fruits and veggies, but they also eat a lot of chips and junk food and drink a lot of soda.  Now I’ve tried to entice them with healthy foods, but I don’t think Kale chips was the best first food for them to try. :P Needless to say there is a lot more unhealthy food in my house.  Don’t get me wrong, I eat healthy 90-95% of the time, but it’s that 5-10% that’s killing me.

Now I know what you’re thinking, 5-10% of the time- that’s not bad! Well, it wouldn’t be if it were per week, but its ending up being per day.  I’m finding myself straying from my Paleo lifestyle by eating cookies, or some cheese, or heck why not have a piece of pizza?  And quite frankly it’s adding up, and I can tell.  I knew going into eating Paleo that a “sideffect” of taking grains out could mean that if I decided to going back to eating “normally” again I’d gain weight.  Well shit, people weren’t kidding.  Even this little amount everyday is adding weight on, I can see it.

So I made the decision today to text my friend Maggs who (thank god!) is having sort of the same problem and after Christmas (c’mon a little leeway people!) I’m going to go cold turkey again.  I got myself into this mess by saying oh one thing a day or every other day won’t hurt.  But that one thing turns into two, then three, and well you get the idea.  And honestly giving in to having like one thing a day is much harder for me to stop at one then when I had quit cold turkey.

And the other “sideeffect” that I’m having is that my mentality with my ED type feeling is flaring up as a result and I know that I had them more under control when I was eating without any “one thing a day” type exceptions.  And if nothing else that is something that weights heavily on my mind in making the decision to go cold turkey again.  I think my best way of eating was Paleo with a cheat day every few weeks because it took care of cravings and yet didn’t let me go overboard, so that’s what I’m going to do.

I’ve been trying to keep myself more balanced with my food feelings and I’ve found a friend of mine who understands we’ll say, and so this is my senior year of college. If I can’t get myself in line a bit by the end, I don’t know when I will.  This is one of the few times in a person’s life when they can go crazy, take care of numero uno, and not have to worry about real problems like money.  So for this last semester of my undergraduate career I’m going to focus on me.  So you can bet your bottom dollar that you’ll be seeing and hearing some interesting things from me in the next few months.

So until later, TTFN.

WANTED: A Break

No, but seriously.  I can’t wait for our fall break at the end of next week.  Last week I was extremely worn down and because of realizing that I honestly stretched myself a bit too thin this semester, I’m cutting down on some of my duties and responsibilities.  It’s the only way that I’ll be able to get everything done that I need to get done and to keep up with my schoolwork.  Which is another reason I need break, I’ve fallen behind and I need just 4 days of absolutely no responsibilities and no classes to worry about so I can just get a bunch of work done.

I know that sounds terrible, but honestly this is what happens to me every year around this time.  I just need to make it to break so I can catch up/get ahead and everything will be good. So that’s that for classes/school work type things.   On to working out/team stuff…  We’ve had like 3/4 meets thus far, so far so good, my times aren’t where I want them to be, but they aren’t terrible so I’m content for now.   We had a race at SUNY IT this past weekend and my mom came and brought me groceries and lots of baked goods so that was fantastic! Also, they had water and apples at the finish- and I got to say I always love when I get some sort of fruit when I’m done with my race.

Moving along again… I’ve been working out around 3x a day for the past few weeks, so I’m trying to restrict myself a little bit more these next few weeks.  Monday and Wednesday I’m going to try to workout only 2x a day and Tuesday and Thursday I can workout 3x a day.  Maybe it will help my body feel not so worn down because I was having that slight problem- overtraining- YAY! 

Oh, also I got some Paleo cookbooks, so I’m attempting to thoroughly educate myself on the whole thing way more than I am already and also having these cookbooks will give me more ideas for foods to make besides my normal chicken and eggs staples.

Which brings me to my next topic- cheat day. Seriously, I went a little too hard this past cheat day and it had a bit to do with my mom bringing me all these baked goods to eat- they were delicious! But its ok, because I honestly haven’t been too nuts on a cheat day yet.  Funny thing was I kept saying I was going to go out- I had like maybe 1/2 a beer and then decided I was too tired and went to bed.  Sara choosing sleep over going out- FTW! 

So that was fun/funny.  Everyone who was with me was like “come out sara!” and Kinga was just like she does this every weekend… I knew she wasn’t actually going to make it out.  And it’s totally true, I definitely get ready to go out and then go to bed like every weekend.

I’m going to attempt to write an article for my school’s newspaper because I saw an advertisement saying they needed sports/health and nutrition writers and I was like I should write an article about Paleo! So I’m going to attempt it and if it sucks…. it sucks.
But other than those things, nothing else is really going on.  I’m basically just attempting to stay afloat with my workload and everything. So I think I’m going to go to the gym quick before class so I can eat between running and crossfit tonight.  

So until later, TTFN.